One of the things I did not completely anticipate with buying a newly constructed house is the amount of projects that would be required. Although the place is obviously structurally sound, little things like hanging shades, painting and organizing are taken for granted in an apartment that will be abandoned in 6-24 months.
In my case, all the initial project seems to involve closets. I put together some closet organizers in the master bedroom over several weekends, and amazingly my head scratching and pondering at Home Depot, 20 minutes before the store closed worked out, and the closet works great. Not ready to “come out of the closet” my next projects entail organizing what the builder named “Pat’s Closet,” a landing ground for servers, network wiring and other gizmos that provide email and other services for my company and house PatandMeg.com. It is currently a mess of wires, loud and hot computers and alarm parts, but will (hopefully) be neat, cool and quiet in a few more weekends. Until then, I am still relegated to the closet.